Drafts of The Movie about the Dead Cellist by Patricia Goedicke. This poem by Goedicke appeared in As Earth Begins to End. Some drafts in this file document comments made by the Rattlesnake Ladies' Salon, a group of female writers from Missoula...

In November of 1988, Patricia Goedicke delivered a lecture at the University of Kansas in Lawrence about the function of sound and silence in poetry. These are the notes for that lecture, which emerged from an imitation workshop she taught...

In these drafts of a poem titled "The Outer Banks," one begins to see the framework of the finished poem. Gone are the overt references to specific assassinations, such as Whitman's lilacs in commemoration of Lincoln's death and the image of...

In these early notes for The Man Who Loved Beauty, Leonard Wallace Robinson sketches the general relationship between the main character and his wife. While these notes begin in the third person, they move to the first person by page two.

Goedicke, Patricia. American literature--20th century. As Earth Begins to End.

In this letter to Sam Hamill at Copper Canyon Press, officially submits her manuscript to Copper Canyon for publication. As stated in the letter, she had previously submitted the manuscript to Milkweed Press, who published her prior three books,...

Patricia Goedicke retired from the University of Montana in 2003. As one of her last acts as professor, she gave a commencement speech in which she elaborated upon the importance of the imagination in understanding each other and the world we live...

These drafts, ordered from most recent to oldest, reflect the many changes to Goedicke's meditation on presenence and absence, sound and silence. Based on the notes at the top of each draft, the poem has been read by Sally, Sarah, and Melissa. ...

These notes are for a reading by Patricia Goedicke on March 5, 2000 for the 2nd Wind Reading Series held by the University of Montana Creative Writing department in Missoula, Montana. In this reading, Goedicke reads one poem from each of her books...

These notes are for a reading by Patricia Goedicke on October 7, 2001 for the 2nd Wind Reading Series held by the University of Montana Creative Writing department in Missoula, Montana. The notes for this reading reflect the backdrop of the...

Goedicke, Patricia. American literature--20th century. As Earth Begins to End.

These notes are for Patricia Goedicke's reading at the Woodstock Poetry Festival. Most of the poems Goedicke read at the festival were from Invisible Horses and As Earth Begins to End. The notes contain brief comments about these two books as...